How did Nixon telephone the moon? Did they drag a cable along behind the spaceship?

-Mark

Greetings Mark,

Good question. I don't know. Maybe someone will write in with the answer.

I have the July 21st, 1969 Province newspaper edition (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) all about the moon-landing which includes a photo of Nixon allegedly talking to the moon (scanned above).

You can see Nixon phoning the moon and talking to Neil Armstrong on split-screen TV (scanned below) and read the transcript at: Class Brain. The actual phone - seen above - is at the Nixon Presidential Museum & Library. You can listen to the call too.

"Hello Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House.

"I just canít tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American this has to be the proudest day of our lives, and for people all over the world I am sure that they, too, join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is.

"Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of manís world, and as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth.

"For one priceless moment in the whole history of man all the people on this earth are truly oneóone in their pride in what you have done and one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG. "Thank you, Mr. President. It is a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States, but men of peaceable nations, men with a vision for the future. It is an honor for us to be able to participate here today.

THE PRESIDENT. "Thank you very much, and I look forward, all of us look forward, to seeing you on the Hornet on Thursday.

ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG. "Thank you. We look forward to that very much, sir."

All the best,
Jackie Jura

PS - A new video on You Tube shows footage of Actors Mimicking Astronauts with an explanation by the narrator who is seen in a photo standing on the moon with them:

"There are people on this planet who think we really didn't go to the moon and probably this is one of the pictures that keeps that hoax going. It's a picture of myself on the moon standing with two astronauts. This photograh was taken while the company I was working for, who built the space suits, was simulating what was going on on the lunar surface. And we did it for CBS News so they could show it while the astronauts were on the surface of the moon and would show what the astronauts were doing. We actually did it in a hangar at Grummond Base, Long Island. And in that hangar we had a mock-up of the Lunar Module and we had test pilots in dummy space suits that my company supplied to CBS. So some of the test pilots from Grummond studied what was being done on the moon and they were able to simulate exactly what was going on. While there was a break in the action I stood on the surface with them beside the American flag - in of course civilian clothes - while they were standing on the surface of the moon - which was really inside, like I said, inside a hanger in Grummond Base, Long Island. We did it because in the first couple of flights there were no cameras on the lunar surface to show what the astronauts were actually doing. They only had one camera on Apollo 11 and it was focused to show Neil Armstrong fuzzily stepping on the lunar surface and it wasn't a very good camera at all. Later on - when they got the Lunar Rover - then they had cameras on the surface which could show exactly what they were doing. So we were simulating what they were doing because there were no cameras to show what they were doing at the time."